Climate Change in the Arctic & around the globe

Ice-Blog

Icebergs, glaciers, snow-white foxes – the beauty of the polar regions features large on the Ice Blog. But what’s happening to all this in a changing climate? And how does the melting of the polar ice in turn affect the rest of the globe? DW environment journalist Irene Quaile documents her icy travels – and comments in between on climate-related news and views across the planet.

Thinking for a cooler world

The GLOBAL IDEAS Blog

Melting ice caps, catastrophic hurricanes, floods and drought plunging entire regions into a water crisis. These are the drastic images often associated with climate change. But what’s actually being done on the ground to halt global warming? The GLOBAL IDEAS Blog features imaginative approaches to climate protection beyond our TV-reports, provides a platform for discussion as well as inside commentary from our editors and reporters. There are so many amazing people and clever ideas out there, they all need to be seen.

A forum for women to talk to women

Women Talk Online

Women Talk Online is a project by the DW South and Southeast Asia service. It was organized and initiated by Grahame Lucas, head of the South and Southeast Asia service of DW.

Marjory

The blog is an attempt to lend a voice to women in Asia, Europe and around the world and to foster discussion on women’s issues. Marjory Linardy supervises and edits the blog.

Arafatul

Arafatul Islam, our social media expert, manages the website and other technical issues.

Jessica

Jessica Vlajnic selects interesting articles and blogs for Women Talk Online to post on Facebook and retweet. Her focus is on topics of great interest to young women.

We encourage young bloggers who want to write for us. If you’re interested, please send us your blog entry of about 300-500 words on any theme of relevance to women. You can email your entry to womentalk@dw.de or send us a message on our Facebook page, DW- Womentalkonline. Please include your details and contacts in your email.

media development

Asia

The blog of the Asia Team of the DW AKADEMIE focuses on media development across the continent/region. It’s a creative digital space to discuss important developments and issues in this field – media projects of the DW AKADEMIE as well as resources for journalists and media trainers.

Quality Journalism in the Digital Age

onMedia

onMedia of the DW Akademie is your guide to quality journalism in the digital age. onMedia will answer some of the questions thrown up by this digital transformation. What is quality journalism in the digital age? What skills and tools do you need to stay on top of your field? What are the most important innovations that will affect your work in the future? With our experience working in developing and emerging countries, onMedia is especially focused on sharing its knowledge with journalists in these regions.

Five bloggers, five countries, one dialogue

Education for all

Five countries, five bloggers, five educational pathways. In this blog, young people from Iraq, Kenya, Russia, Germany and Argentina discuss the state of education in their home countries as well as their own experiences in the system. They come from varying cultures, religions and classes. It was not always easy for the bloggers to make their way through school, but they agree on one thing: Promoting access to education is important. Please join the discussion – comments are welcome, including about your own experiences with learning.

Blog with Peter Craven

Talking Germany

Each week our host Peter Craven meets interesting and colorful guests to chat about life in Germany – all in the DW talk show “Talking Germany – The German Way of Life.” Now Peter is taking to the blogosphere to give us an insider’s view of the program each week. He’ll tell us what it was really like to chat with the notable and quotable people featured on the program. We look forward to hearing your comments, too!

Generation Change

Whether they are campaigning for free press in Zimbabwe, helping provide clean water in India, or offering free music lessons to underprivileged kids in the UK, young people all over the world are making a difference.